Who says its incorrect? You? Im just going buy what Ive seen via my eyes.
I realize that the reflective bowl is what emits the output. But if you look into a Fit headlight while the headlights are on, the beam reflects all over the color matched housings.

A glossy housing will reflect all over, causing glare. A flat housing will absorb it.

 

DIY blackhousings do cut down on glare quite substantially actually. Especially anything out of the focal area. When I had 6000k HIDs in my 2000 accord, with black housings, it significantly cut down on glare. Almost all vertical glare went away(most apparent in heavy fog cuz you can SEE the beams of light). The deeper the housings the more glare it drops. Also, Accord housings are really good at cutting down glare anyway. Flat black absorbs the light outside of the reflector area. You can see my old black housings in my sig, not my projector HIDs. Ray is correct.

 

holy glare batman

 

Yeaaaaaa, that needs to be aimed down.

 

The Fit is still one of the best NON HID headlight housing for a plug and play kit.

And thanks, Shaggs for the support.

 

Until you post cutoff pictures against a wall your theory is bullshit. Nice feedback by the way, thats excactly why most forums have that feature disabled...

 

The cutoff isn't bad in a fit, I just don't trust Telescoping bulbs, as I have heard they have a really high failure rate, and I need high beams, so i wouldn't do a low beam only kit. I would rather switch the high beam/low beam relay to keep lows on with highs like on the accord, except run the high beams to seperate 4-5 inch rally lights tucked behind the lower grille

 

I have eyelids on my lights, I did notice they drop down the cutoff a bit.



BTW> 4000 posts!!!

 

Here I was thinkin people on FitFreak were nicer peeps than those on other forums I'm part of....but get 'em all talkin about headlights of all things, and things get off the chain! I just got done reading through 4 pages of damn near all bickering!

You can't tell cutoff by taking a front-on pic of your car cuz the lense will glare regardless! Anyone thought of posting pictures of cutoffs against a wall...I know it's been mentioned, but I didn't see any pics or a link to another thread on it. Technically, even pics of light cutoff isn't a good judge anyway because by some peoples standards on here, OEM projectors are all correct and aimed good...but my podunk town is somehow blessed with many Beemers and Mercedes and all the like with stock projectors...I find I have more problems with these people on the road both in oncoming and following traffic. You projector guys can't say you've never been blinded by one of your own...it's impossible not to be. Bright lights are just bright lights when it's pitch black out...deal with it. When I get back from this deployment I'll post pics of my HID cutoffs if no one's started it by then. Thanks for hearing me out!

 

mine dont look too bad, installed last night, stock aim setting

 

It's all about the performance. haha that' some bright lights especially when the copper thieve steal the wires for our street lights.

 

This thread needs more pics of Fits with HID PnP kits against a white wall. Some OEM housings aren't bad for HIDs (ie. RSX), but do some put out a ton of glare.

 

Pics posted here...there's too many "HIDs are bad" threads!!!

https://www.fitfreak.net/forums/2nd-...tml#post691313

 

Thats specific to the GE chassis, also those headlights are aimed far too high.

 

I didn't think they were that high. I'm on an incline but my garage door isn't, so it appears higher. It would be almost a foot shorter than it looks there. That's stock aiming from the OEM bulbs, although not taking into account the brightness of the HID bulbs. And yes, it is GE specific.

 

gosh such tragedy on here. I can understand if people are against it but damn no need to get all passionate about it.


50/50 Hids and Halogen, i wonder which one is which?...


YUP you guessed it!


almost identical pattern... That stupid spiked thing at the top is even reduced!

so there guys... a side-by-side comparison

 

that aint no cutoff.

ps, the fit has a terrible cutoff with stock halogen bulbs, so HID's would only make them worse

 

exactly man... HIDs made the cutoff even sharper! So adding HIDs increase brightness AND give you a neater beam

edit* oh wait.. you said they were worse? sorry i read it wrong. well as you can clearly see it actually made it better

 

U have HIDs? Its true it is not a cutoff, but the HID isnt BAD for a halogen housing compared to many other cars, and yes compared to a projector ANY non projector HID beam will look like crap.

Can you see better with the HIDs? yes... As long as your lights arent aimed to the sky you will not blind anyone as the glare isnt THAT bad. You should see the glare in my JDM headlights. It lights up the trees... but I still have never been flashed. Now what erks me about pnp kits is when people put in 8k or higher temp bulbs. Shit glares MORE and on top of it you get crappy lighting.

 

oh damn... im not sure on this, but JDM headlights dont have a little cover for the bulbs right? it's kinda hard to explain, but i've seen alot of JDM headlights where the bulbs are exposed, there is no chrome cover in front of it.. Maybe that's why it glares more?